West Pokot County Fiscal Strategy Paper 2023/2024

Abstract

Section 117 of the public Finance Management Act, 2012 provides that the County Treasury shall prepare and submit to the County Executive and the County Assembly the County Fiscal Strategy Paper for approval by the 28th February of each year. This strategy paper articulates priority socioeconomic and fiscal policies and structural reforms as well as sectoral expenditure programs to be implemented in the Fiscal Year 2023/2024 and the medium term. Specifically, the County Fiscal Strategy Paper aims to; Specify the broad strategic priorities and policy goals that will guide the county government in preparing its budget for the coming financial year and over the medium term, provide Linkage with the national objectives in the Budget Policy Statement and the financial outlook with respect to county government revenues, expenditures and borrowing over the medium term. The BPS,2023 is framed against a backdrop of global economic slowdown underpinned by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, elevated global inflation, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change related supply chain disruptions. As the effects of COVID-19 pandemic started to fade away, the Kenyan economy bounced back recording a GDP growth rate of 7.5 percent in 2021.